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As COVID-19 Spreads in Washington s Prisons, Advocates Call for Better Conditions, Release of Inmates
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As COVID-19 spreads in Washington s prisons, advocates call for better conditions, release of inmates | Coronavirus
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State prison inmates say they re pressured to keep working in midst of coronavirus outbreak
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Sick inmates at Airway Heights Corrections Center are calling conditions “obscene” and “decaying.” Some have described urine on the floor of a gym where 150 coronavirus-positive inmates are sharing four toilets.
As the prison faces the fastest and largest COVID-19 outbreak in Washington state prisons yet, minimum-security prisoners are still making food in the Washington State Correctional Industries factory for between 90 cents and $1.70 an hour.
Correctional Industries is a state-owned program with “private industry tools” that produces goods, including food, with prison labor to sell mainly to state agencies, according to its website.
Some inmates think that work is part of the reason the virus is spreading rapidly. As of Friday, 792 inmates, more than 40% of the prison’s current population, had tested positive. Twelve days prior, the prison had only seven cases.
The Airway Heights Corrections Center is in the midst of the fastest and largest COVID-19 outbreak Washington state prisons have recorded.
Michelle Kuhn said her fiancé is one of 146 COVID-positive men housed in the prison’s gym, according to the department’s count.
There are four toilets for those men, the agency reported, leading to what Kuhn claimed was urine on the gym floor. The agency denies this.
Susan Biller, Department of Corrections spokesperson, wrote in an email that there’s no Wi-Fi in the gym. This means inmates cannot use their corrections-approved messaging service, JPAY, to communicate with families.